· Private foundation
Thomas and Michelle Wermers Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CUREBOUND | $110,000 |
| YOUTH WITH A MISSION | $40,000 |
| GROSSMONT UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT | $30,000 |
| RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL - SAN DIEGO | $15,000 |
| SCRIPPS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LA JOLLA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| GREEK ORTHODOX LADIES PHILOPTOCHOS SOCIETY INC | $5,000 |
| MARANATHA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCUREBOUND6× · 2017–2024 · $416k · revenue +198%
- BABorrego Art Institute4× · 2020–2023 · $40k · revenue +32%
- USUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- TSTHE SURFSIDE CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $10k
- CHChildren's Hospital Los Angelesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +78%
- MTMOXIE THEATRE INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +19%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
At la jolla institute for immunology, our scientists focus on understanding how the immune system works in order to promote human health and prevent disease. our discoveries apply to many diseases, ranging from diabetes to heart disease,…
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
Rady children's health (formerly rady children's hospital and health center (rchhc)) was formed to acquire, establish, maintain, conduct, operate, raise funds for, and otherwise support, directly or indirectly through its affiliates,…
The primary exempt purpose of children's healthcare of california includes without limitation the receipt of distributions and grants for the making of distributions and grants to children's hospital of orange county (choc) and to…
The New Childrens Museum (the Museum) in San Diego is an arts-based childrens museum whose mission is to stimulate imagination, creativity, and critical thinking in children and families through inventive, engaging experiences with…
Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…
A not-for-profit, long-term acute care specialty healthcare organization is to improve the quality of life for patients with respiratory and other diseases that may require prolonged acute hospitalization of specialized treatment.
To be the preeminent pediatric, multispecialty medical group in the nation, dedicated to providing the highest quality medical care to infants, children and adolescents; and supporting the finest teaching and research endeavors of our…
The institute seeks to: translate research findings into new clinical tests and treatments to improve patient outcomes, enhance the knowledge in this field among current and future healthcare providers, and generate and share data and…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
The Corporation is a nonprofit public benefit corporation and is not organized for the private gain of any person. It is organized under the Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law for public and charitable purposes. The Corporation is…
Rady children's health services san diego was formed to aid and assist rady children's hospital san diego in carrying out the hospital's exempt purpose.
How this is measured
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CUREBOUND ↗
- Who funds Borrego Art Institute ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds SCRIPPS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds LA JOLLA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL EATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds MOXIE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds RANCHO COASTAL HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds Kylie Rowand Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CYT SD ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CARLSBAD ↗
- Who funds The Vision of Children ↗
- Who funds OCEANSIDES FINEST BASKETBALL CLUB ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Sempra Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Thomas and Michelle Wermers Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas and Michelle Wermers Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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